Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] [vb pp] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The talks at Akkerman had apparently cleared up disagreements with the Turks , but the Shah , and particularly his son , believed that the Russian domestic crisis of December 1825 had created enough uncertainty in St Petersburg to justify a challenge to the Russo-Persian treaty of 1813 . |
| 2 | Of these forty-five had received some sort of special training for a diplomatic career , and a good many had studied outside Russia . |
| 3 | His removal , known to have been sanctioned by President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , followed a public uproar when he attempted to exonerate state and local officials after explosions in the sewers of the city of Guadalajara on April 22 had left 200 people dead and caused widespread devastation [ see p. 38859 ] . |
| 4 | Of the 41 Local Authority libraries that replied , 24 had automated or were considering automation ; the majority had implemented automation of accessions , cataloguing and circulation , but only 2 had introduced automated systems for ILL . |
| 5 | Of 354 fifth- and sixth-formers who left Sharon 's school in the summer of 1981 forty had found real jobs by 18 November , four of these having entered military service . |
| 6 | An association agreement concluded in October 1991 had sanctioned economic consultations between the IMF and the Soviet Union , as well as with individual union republics [ see p. 38554 ] . |
| 7 | However , legislation introduced in Missouri in 1991 had limited non-economic damages in malpractice cases to US$430,000 . |
| 8 | Analysts attributed the popularity of the " A " share application issue to the high level of individual savings , negative real interest rates and the fact that a similar share offering in November 1991 had brought large gains to investors . |
| 9 | A DP statement on Nov. 26 had listed key demands as the bringing forward of elections from May-June to February 1992 , the resumption of trials of members of the security forces for the killing of pro-democracy demonstrators in Shkodër before the April elections , the removal of SPA members from key positions in Albanian Radio and Televison ( RTV — ibid. ) , and the arrest of former communist leaders ( " blockmen " ) who were accused of abuse of power . |
| 10 | Two other daughters of the King , Princess Helen and Princess Sophie , whose arrival in Romania with relief convoys from the United Kingdom and Switzerland on April 10 had attracted widespread publicity , stated that they regretted the government 's decision . |
| 11 | In addition , the Six had learnt some lessons from the past , and hoped that the adoption of a long-term perspective would also avoid a clash of economic interest with the OEEC . |
| 12 | By late afternoon the FT-SE 100 had made some progress and closed 26.2 up at 2732.4 , with news of the GATT deal coming after the end of trading . |
| 13 | Among Poor Law administrators at all levels the change in LGB policy from the 1870s had created some confusion . |
| 14 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 15 | The first phase of the battle was to coat the shellac on a cardboard base ; in fact , the Neophone Company of 1904 had tried this idea . |
| 16 | Half of the reported difficulties had been at least five years earlier , and only one in three had involved any question of difficulty over getting credit . |
| 17 | Three had chosen one option , three the other . |
| 18 | I thought of Angela Brickell 's death and of the attacks on Harry and me and it seemed that all three had had one purpose , which was to keep things as they were . |
| 19 | Three had taken military training , and the remaining fifteen had attended either Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 20 | Another pleasure is the little note from Bonnard , who in May 1946 had borrowed two pictures by Matisse , including ‘ L'Asie ’ ( sold to the Kimbell Art Museum at Sotheby 's , New York in December 1992 for $10 million ) : ‘ Your two pictures decorate ( that 's the word ) my dining room , against an ochre background that becomes them . |
| 21 | On July 31 the government reached an agreement with trade unions and employers for the abolition of the scala mobile , which since 1946 had guaranteed large numbers of Italian workers wage rises in line with inflation . |
| 22 | Lonrho had just bought out the brewing concern Heinrichs , which in 1964 had started another daily , called the Zambia Times , and a weekly , the Zambia News . |
| 23 | Pope John Paul II had created new dioceses during 1991 in the former Soviet Union and appointed six apostolic administrators ( five bishops and one archbishop ) . |
| 24 | Both Edward I and Edward II had made substantial use of the traditional feudal levy for raising an army , summoning all tenants-in-chief of the crown to serve unpaid with a set quota of men for forty days . |
| 25 | Significantly , this is the very language which Urban II had used three years earlier with regard to homage by priests to laymen : the hands , he had declared , in which Christ 's Body was made in the Eucharist were defiled by having been enclosed in the bloody hands of laymen . |
| 26 | In 1156 Henry II had taken young Aimar V of Limoges out of the custody of his uncles and had arranged his marriage to Sarah of Cornwall . |
| 27 | Before primary gall stone dissolution , 16 patients had had solitary stones : the remaining 77 had had multiple stones . |
| 28 | Although just over half of a sample of teenage mothers in 1979 — 80 had had some kind of family planning lesson at school , only a quarter had attempted to use contraception around the time they conceived . |
| 29 | From a random group of 45 ( out of 90 ) county court judges and 24 ( out of 48 ) stipendiaries , he found that 52 had attended public schools ( 75 per cent ) and 56 Oxford or Cambridge ( 81 per cent ) . |
| 30 | On Friday night Perkins 's 400m time of 3–46.47 had shaved 0.48 seconds off the old mark set by Uwe Dassler , of East Germany , at the 1988 Olympics . |